Ko Ishikawa

Tokyo, Japan, 1963

Performer (shō)

Shō player Ko Ishikawa studied Japanese traditional Gagaku music under
his masters Mayumi Miyata, Hideaki Bunno and
Sukeyasu Shiba. He has been performing not only Gagaku music but also
contemporary and experimental music. He is widely acclaimed on the national and international
scenes.

In 2017, he has participated in ’Yugenism: Animated Soundscapes of the Japanese Sublime’
(London), ‘ISCM World New Music Days 2017’ (Vancouver) and ’In a Winter garden’ (Stanford
University, California).